Commercial development and leasing

Eversheds Sutherland’s commercial development and leasing team focuses on the most important part of a deal: fulfilling your business objectives. We also understand the challenges you face in taking a deal from conceptualization to completion. Whatever your needs and wherever you operate, our lawyers are on hand to help you achieve your goals.

Experienced commercial development and leasing lawyers

We support deals including:

land assembly

letters of intent

purchase and sale agreements

planning and permits

joint venture formations

acquisition and development financing

project completion

leasing and sales to users

permanent finance

disposition

We regularly represent international landlords and tenants in virtually every kind of lease activity including retail, office, industrial, distribution and data centers. Our team has extensive experience in technical legal concepts such as indemnities, waivers of subrogation, subordination provisions, exclusive use provisions, insurance provisions, fire, casualty and condemnation provisions and provisions regarding the assumption of takeover of existing leases. However, we focus on the truly important financial provisions such as rent, build-out allowances, work letters, use provisions, assignment and subletting.

Successful deals require a team approach. At Eversheds Sutherland, we view ourselves as creative and cost-effective problem-solvers and deal-makers. We also see it as our responsibility to implement your strategy. Our development and leasing work brings together experienced practitioners from our construction, environmental, planning and tax teams, who work closely with our real estate lawyers on projects across all asset classes.

An experienced commercial development legal team

Our recent commercial development and leasing experience includes:

the £800 million Airport City development in Manchester, U.K.

a mixed-use development around the new Major League Baseball stadium in Atlanta, Georgia

advising on the sale of a portfolio consisting of 4.1 million square feet of 69 industrial buildings

the £750 million Grand Central Station in Birmingham, U.K.

negotiating leases for more than 20 million square feet of warehouse and industrial leases across several U.S. states

advising on the creation of a consortium for the development of a cultural zone within the new Lodz city center in Poland

a renegotiation of the data center lease associated with the 21-story, 750,000-square-foot High Performance Computing Center at Georgia Institute of Technology

Contact our commercial development and leasing team

If you would like any further information or need advice on commercial development and leasing law, please contact our legal team.

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